Gheorghe Petic, former border police officer who was sentenced to three years and a half in jail for rape and was released from arrest last week, said that six criminal cases and one administrative case were started against him overall and all of these were fabricated. He spoke about these cases in the talk show “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.
“I will wait for an honest prosecutor general to be named in the Republic of Moldova, for a correct judiciary to work in the Republic of Moldova and then all those who fabricated these cases will evidently be attacked. Moreover, the Republic of Moldova was sued at the ECHR on one count. I will file a complaint to the ECHR on another two counts. Everyone should answer for what they did, but in accordance with the law,” stated Gheorghe Petic.
Anatol Istrate, lawyer for Gheorghe Petic, said he will wait for the Chisinau City Appeals Court to pass its judgement so that he has a benchmark from which to take legal action against the Orhei Town Court that committed a series of departures. They asked to replace one of the judges for seven times for the reason that this violated Gheorghe Petic’s rights to defense and to a fair trial. “He decided on his replacement by himself,” noted the lawyer.
Anatol Istrate also said he will notify the Superior Council of Magistracy and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the identified irregularities.
Lawyer Angela Istrate said she filed a complaint against a judge of the Balti City Court. “This judge falsified a court judgement and we thus submitted a complaint to the Balti Prosecutor’s Office, but we weren’t informed officially about the result of this examination,” she stated.
After being in remand detention for nine months, the activist of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” Gheorghe Petic was set free after the judges of the Chisinau City Appeals Court sent the case against him back for retrial after the judges questioned the woman who asserts that she was raped by the defendant.
On March 20, the former border police officer was sentenced by the common law court to three years and six months in jail and fined 30,000 lei. He was arrested in the middle of last October on charges of rape. The man pleads not guilty and says that the case started against him is political in character.
Gheorghe Petic ran in the February 24 parliamentary elections on the list of the Electoral Bloc ACUM DA and PAS, but could not take part in the election campaign and didn’t enter Parliament.
